Native American Rock Art of the Southwest: Newspaper Rock. Learning Objectives for this video:

Newspaper Rock Utah. Learn about the Native American Rock Art at Newspaper Rock. Discover the characteristics of Native American rock art that remain constant across the Southwest and throughout time.

Name the Native American societies that created southwestern rock art and identify the time periods during which these societies existed.

Explore the two primary methods of creating rock art images: painting, which results in pictographs, and pecking, which creates petroglyphs.

Learn about representational and abstract images seen in the program and explain the difference between the two.

Outline several causes of the loss of rock art images, including reformation of the rock patina, pollution, mineralization of rocks, and defacing of images by modern people.

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